Hi guys, in this lesson I'd like to explain how you can develop a strong composition by analyzing the masterpieces and learning from them. Composition plays a very big girl in your picture success. The actor's job is to keep the viewers attention on the picture as long as possible. Strong compositions feature effective design and let the viewers eye travel across the artwork to arrive at the center of interest. To understand the principles of compositional design, let's look at the masterpieces and let's pay attention to the artistic way of organizing their subjects. The artist often glazed shape at different Go and authenticate to create movement.

Also, they play these various sizes and geometric shapes. If you see artists crop the images cropping is considerable and definite where objects are people don't see it on the edge of canvas or paper. Rather there is enough space left between the edge and the subject. If you look at the artwork of the impression is, you'll see very considerable across all people and objects. They also tend to look at objects from left to right. So artists design the artwork is this idea in mind and often use the stopper on the right side of the image to keep you in the loop and never leave the artwork.

So first up very effective in real life our most artwork is not symmetrical, but I just use symmetry to make a statement. For example, know the butterfly wings this perfect symmetry, or you can create a mirror water reflection that's perfectly symmetrical to your landscape above it. Now let's look at the most popular and effective composition that have been used by the artist for centuries. pentagram is a circular design visit five pointed star placed inside it. Every element in the painting fits within the parameters of the star Most Renaissance masters followed the pentagram designs where they exercise the use of linear perspective correct size and placement of figures. For Angelica creates striking composition, where he balances shapes and figures.

Right in the middle of the painting, we can see a clear division of space with the cross and the figures of laced around the cross. In this life, we can see how the artist balances out various objects with equal distances and lines that create unity. symmetrical compositions can be very beautiful because they create perfect balance of shapes and colors. contemporary artists use this technique a lot They usually have fewer objects, or maybe even a single one. By creating a perfect symmetry. We can see perfect symmetry, in drawings of butterflies, reflections, fabric patterns, or in abstract pieces.

In their mirrors, painting a symmetrical compositions, rich perfect balance this different objects placed on both sides of the painting. There may often places his main subject, who is a woman here, in the center of the picture, but carefully balances out both sides of the painting with the interior surroundings. That's why the image looks so dynamic as we study each quarter of the painting. Same as race prevail and in still life, art. Artists please Frodo flowers is deliberate a symmetry of trying to find perfect balance of shapes in various sizes and textures. Here we see flowers, diagonally place, but the bouquet has a great variation in texture, color, rotation, and size of the flowers is no repetition.

The color and value of the background should support your center of interest and not subtract from it. Artists carefully consider what took place in the background to help them tell a story. But those elements received much less light texture or detail as opposed to the subject itself. In this painting, all our attention is on the face her hand and beautiful fabric. The music sheets transition the finger into the neck have space the background with a dark wall and the column that describes the space but doesn't take our attention away from the woman. In this painting the figure is placed at a diagonal where the color of the dress pulls us in.

We can see the same Arad repeated in rows and a carpet, but the color is less than dense. In those two subjects, the negative space is very dark to create deliberate contrast, it brings the woman slight skin tone, and her red dress into focus. Artists love to use diagonals and triangles in their compositions. Most religious paintings were created using the triangle a composition where Virgin Mary or Christ taught the triangle, the secondary figure placed at their sides. diagonals often contribute to the compositional balance as well. If the composition doesn't have the big triangle shapes placed, a diagonal can be found in almost any representational painting.

Big and small diagonals create movement and remove stiffness from figures and boredom from still lives. In this painting, VC triangle a composition is virgin mirrors, blue clothing, forming the triangle, they can also notice the rotation of your head and hand placed at very similar diagonals on purpose. These diagonals bring dynamism to the picture and make these ordinary objects look so incredibly interesting. Golden section or the roll Two thirds is the most used and perhaps even overused design principle today, the idyllic proportion comes from nature. This mathematical division of space was forgotten during the medieval period and revived in the Renaissance Italy. The concept is very easy to understand, just divide your picture into three equal parts and place your center of interest on one third of the image.

By shifting your focal point to the side, the picture becomes more dynamic. This balanced proportion is often used in landscape art, figurative painting and still life alike. Here we can see two figures placed off center and those figures lead us to contemplate the moon. The tree is painted at the diagonal on purpose. And there are dates to the left in the sky to keep viewers in the loop visual layer. In this picture we can see clear division of space.

One third is the land and two thirds are taken by the sky. One tall tree connects the sky with the land. The creation of Adam by Michelangelo is one of the most famous paintings that use s shaped design. The picture is divided in half by a curve that resembles that our data S shape, the S can rotate in different directions, but the objects I equally groped on both sides of the painting. For instance, in this painting we see two groups. A man on a cheer is balanced by two women and we can draw an imaginary Esker between them, they can also see the same idea in Caravaggio's composition.

And then this painting we can observe a very soft S shape or perhaps the soft diagonal. In still life painting, a streak of white flowers runs in the middle of the luscious, bulkier, forming a soft core effects of composition results in a deliberate movement around the picture where an artist draws our attention to the focal point or the center of interest. The focal point usually has the maximum level of texture, color and detail and value that creates selective focus. You as an artist have to prioritize what to draw is more detail and color intensity and what to leave out. Besides using the highest detail in the center of interest, you can also control the value or tone that helps to move our eye around the picture. For instance, when the entire picture has subdued hills or falls dark, and the focal point is in the bright light, we as people, the spectators have their own right into it.

What's your favorite painting bigger field to study their compositions? Find the focal point and study how a particular artists use a space, color, texture and value to create the beautiful work of art. I'd like to show and explain some of my creative design strategies. Working on my colored pencil art. Here I'm using the rule of thirds by dividing the space where most of it is taken by the sky. In this artwork I'm using vertical and horizontal lines to create movement.

These Peacock Feathers look like eyes to me, and I was captivated by their unusual colors and design. I placed one further to the side to balance out the composition. In this artwork, you see me balance. The Seabiscuit, which is a large shape is a much smaller but brighter, shape vicious the heart so it's a nice Play between the colors, the size of the shapes and the textures. In the image of the cat, I play this the shape of the heart and place two more hearts in the background. I took numerous photographs of the donuts, it was actually very difficult to place them in such a way that they would balance each other out in texture and size.

After many attempts, I finally got the right balance among all the textures and colors I wanted to capture in the donuts. In this artwork, I used many variations of one color which is purple and place to throw out my artwork in this painting, my design strategy is the placement of flowers at the diagonal. Here I play this idea of symmetry throwing the pot and make sure that the leaves have varied appearance. These are my colored pencil studies done in Venice. I basically use just black and white colored pencil to draw on colored paper. Here you see me use lots of horizontal and vertical lines as a design strategy, placing buildings of center.

In this colored pencil drawing, I wanted to balance her beautiful face with the background space, and that's why I came up with the idea of using the blue as the main color. Here I use blue in the short in the flowers, in her hair, and even in her skin. This creates unity and interest. In this artwork I wanted to create the Unity using golden yellow colors. I also designed it in such a way that the hair flows into the background and the background becomes something else by taking one color and adding it throughout the picture. I balanced different shapes out in the picture of two Nicaraguan boys, I removed the background to make it very simple.

So we focus on the faces of those children. In my colored pencil drawing of Christina I focused on her eyes in and made sure that they became the focal point also I use green in the background and I put that into the shadows in her skin and her eyes are bluish green. I'm adding those colors into her hair and the background as well. The Thai girl has a an insane amount of details, it's a small drawing. Most of my drawings are nine by 12. But again, I unify different elements by using the same colors throughout my picture.

Here you can see that green and pink, two major colors. And while I place the finger right in the middle of my picture, her arms are a symmetrical, which creates movement in the picture again. In this drawing, I create leaves to make a circular movement around Her face. I hope you found this information useful. Next time you begin designing your images, you can always go back and watch it again. Otherwise, I'll see you in our next lesson.